Lausanne 1977

Joseph Haydn the composer of symphonies, string quartets, piano trios, piano sonatas, and a plethora of other instrumental works was also Joseph Haydn the composer, director, and producer of operas. His employer, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, greatly enjoyed opera, and for nearly 20 years Haydn's full-time job was running the theater at Esterháza, the Prince's pleasure palace in Hungary. In the first decade, Haydn wrote 10 operas for his company, the most successful of which ran for 20 performances. In tone, they range from the comic to the semi-serious to the wholly serious, and in quality, they range between the operas of Gluck and Mozart.

With her refined, honest artistry, the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires - who turns 70 in July 2014 - is one of the musicians who defined the Erato label in the 1970s and 1980s. This 17-CD box presents all the recordings she made between 1972 and 1987. Reflecting the consistent focus of her repertoire, this box set's emphasis is on Austro-German composers of the Classical and early-Romantic periods. Embracing solo works, piano duets, and concertos, this release contains works by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Beethoven, as well as by Bach and Chopin.

Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has also been a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music. In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first recipient of both the contemporary and classical musician prizes, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. His album, The Köln Concert, released in 1975, became the best-selling piano recording in history. In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll.

« Les moustiques viennent de la nuit des temps (250 millions d'années), mais ils ne s'attardent pas (durée de vie moyenne : 30 jours). Nombreux (3 564 espèces), volontiers dangereux (plus de 700 000 morts humaines chaque année), ils sont répandus sur les cinq continents (Groenland inclus). …

L’univers de la stupidité à la portée de tous.
Les recherches sur l’intelligence ont montré que le Quotient intellectuel (QI) constitue une bonne mesure des capacités cognitives d’un individu. On a également établi que si, depuis le début du XXe siècle, le QI a progressé dans au moins une trentaine de pays, il a commencé à décliner au milieu des années 1990 dans certains pays. …

Die 1977 in Buenos Aires geborene Evangelina Mascardi studierte in ihrer Heimatstadt Gitarre an der „J.P. Esnaola National School of Music" bei Silvia Fernandez und Gabriel Schebor, bevor sie 1997 in die Lautenklasse von Hopkinson Smith an der „Schola Cantorum Basiliensis" eintrat, wo sie 2001 ihr Solistendiplom erlangt hat. Als Solistin nahm sie an mit großem Erfolg an verschiedenen Festivals teil (u.a. „Fringe" Barcelona. „Junge Künstler" Nürnberg, „Concentus" Berlin). Evangelina Mascardi spielt Continuo in verschiedenen Ensembles, wie „Venice Baroque Orchestra", „Zefiro", „Ensemble 415", „Capriccio Basel", „Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne" u.a…